Dennis Meechum (Brian Dennehy) is a cop and thriller writer, writing books based on real life cases. Since his wife died of cancer he has suffered from writers block. Along comes Cleve (James Woods), a man who claims he was a hired killer for a corporation. Meechum doesn’t believe him, so Cleve sets out to prove it while the company tries to kill them both.
This is a rather generic 80’s cop thriller, but its actually rather good. Brian Dennehy is generally a likeable guy, and he comes across very well in this movie. He doesn’t have a huge amount to do as its really a James Woods show.
If you know James Woods from Family Guy, I don’t mean ONLY from Family Guy but the character he plays on there, he’s pretty much on show here. His killer is psychotic, insecure and lonely. It’s a great performance from Woods, pretty creepy and unlikeable at times, semi charming and quite decent at others. He runs a bit of a gamut here and lands every moment he has to.
This actually had a bit of a weird moment for me towards the start too. Remember the TV show Renegade? I really liked Renegade. And Bobby Sixkiller was pretty awesome. He’s in this towards the start. First time I remember seeing him somewhere else.
Anyway, this is far from a dark “Murder She Wrote” and more of a “He’s a cop, he’s a killer” buddy cop movie. Though dark rather than funny. If you’re a fan of James Woods, or you want to see why he’s regarded as a good actor, then this wouldn’t be the worst thing to check out. At this point it is a TV watch though.
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